being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ Ephesians 3:17-19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19 POWERED BY GOD’S LOVE I. God’s love is costly and extravagant. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:13 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9 II. God’s love is unconditional. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4,5 III. God’s love is limitless. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword . . . 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:35,37 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 I. God’s love is costly and extravagant. II. God’s love is unconditional. III. God’s love is limitless.